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[tense ambient music]

♪

- There is snow in the mountain.

I need to finish the shelter.

I have no more time.

[Andrew] It's really good to see

some game in my cooking area.

I think if I can keep getting more food,

I'm in a good position to do this as long as it takes.

Mmm, mmm, mmm.

[Will] It's important for me to explore

this land because I need to find moose.

[bleep]. Oh.

♪

[groans]

Totally lost consciousness.

Man.

I know that I said

I'm willing to die to win this,

but this experience has given me a different mindset.

[Nero] I do not need two snowshoe hares right now.

My intention isn't to come to the land

and just take as much as I can.

There we go.

I really want to have this

respectful relationship with it.

[bowstring twangs]

[Ziga] If I harvest this moose,

that would definitely be a game changer for me.

♪

[Ziga] Okay, let's get hands dirty

even more.

It's gonna be a long night.

Yeah, quite exhausted, but the real work starts now.

♪

♪

This is my first experience with moose, basically.

To me, it looks huge.

But I might be biased because I live

in a country with red deer.

So it's a different category.

I have to remove this hide.

Wow, it's so heavy.

It's good insulation.

Oh, [bleep].

But I'm a bit worried because I never

processed something so huge.

So there is a lot of work because I have to skin it,

gut it, and I have to pull it apart as soon as possible

to prevent meat spoiling.

And it's dark already.

Okay, I don't really see well, but I have to keep on going.

Whoa.

How huge livers.

I hope they are better than from fish.

[grunts]

That's so much fat attached to the kidneys.

♪

Put this around your neck.

So long.

Wow, so much good stuff.

Gosh, I could almost get in.

Oh, look, guys.

Meat.

Huge heart.

♪

Crazy beast.

I love you,

and I love your meat.

I was having a lot of fun, but I just realized,

[bleep], I should speed up.

I don't have unlimited time.

Also closer to go to bed tonight at some point.

♪

[grunts]

[saw thudding]

♪

[grunts]

Okay. Come on, leg.

[bone snaps]

Oh, yeah!

I'm not sure if I can carry this.

Whoa. [sighs]

Crazy chunk of meat.

♪

Quite hurts.

I'm working quite late in the night,

and I have to collect all my strength

to at least put bigger chunks of meat apart.

Heavy beast.

♪

Okay!

And then I can go to sleep.

[blade scraping]

♪

Do we have any bear here?

♪

So far, no competition.

I'm a bit nervous leaving this moose overnight.

It's completely open to predators,

and I'm risking all my meat.

But I'm super exhausted, so there's no chance

I can transport anything this night.

[bleep]. I'm struggling now, to be honest.

There's no other option, and I will continue next day.

Oh, my back.

♪

Exhausted.

♪

[Pedrosa] Look at this.

We have sunlight.

Beautiful.

♪

Awesome view. Look at this.

I want to say thank you to God for blessing me

today with the sun.

It's awesome.

♪

[tarp rustling]

♪

Let's begin.

Then I will cover the roof with the tarp.

The bigger ones...

♪

[sighs]

I want to finish my shelter today

so I can spend all the time fishing,

because fishing is the secret of the show.

Just like this.

And fish have more fat than the meat of big animal.

Now I only have pieces of rabbit to eat.

I have enough food to stay here more three days

until I get some fish.

It's not an easy task.

Even with lack of food, I have strength because...

34 logs.

Split the branches.

And I think it's an advantage because the heart

needs less energy to pump the blood,

and I can go further.

This is a lot of energy,

so we are pushing to the limit.

♪

Pressure is what make diamonds,

and diamonds are hard to break.

Even if it's the wrong step, it's something to move on.

Then you learn again step after step.

♪

[sighs]

Massive work.

♪

And I am too tired to finish it.

♪

[sighs]

♪

Why did I do...

♪

[sighs]

[tense ambient music]

♪

- [breathing softly]

[birds cawing]

Oh, [bleep].

♪

Slept. I don't know how long.

It's super late already.

[bleep].

♪

I hope.

♪

Let's see.

It looks exactly the same as yesterday.

♪

I don't see any animal activity here.

All this fat from the guts, everything all good.

So let's do some work.

♪

Oh, man, that's such a relief.

[groans]

It's a lot of work processing something so big.

I was afraid there would be, like, huge devastation,

especially of parts that contain a lot of fat.

♪

Because if this is gone, then I'm left pretty much

only with lean meat,

and this can lead to protein starvation.

♪

Gosh, it still must be heavy as [bleep].

But, of course, I don't want to waste anything.

Bam!

Huge steaks.

♪

[laughs] Whoa.

Gosh, it's so much meat.

It's incredible. It just doesn't stop.

Okay, ribs.

♪

[shovel thwacking]

Basically, I'm not a hunter.

So it feels very good to have this moose.

But, of course, things can always go wrong.

Like, the weather is changing so quickly here.

One day, it's snowing, and then suddenly warm,

and then it's cold again.

Also, in this competition, there are many people

who are very good hunters.

Almost there.

I mean, it never happened before,

but I don't find it that impossible

that another person might catch something big,

and it could go for super long.

♪

[groans]

I'm done.

Gosh, I'm tired.

So look at this.

So much meat.

Holy [bleep].

A lot. A lot of carcass to haul.

♪

Okay, carrying meat.

Whoa. [sighs]

♪

[grunts]

Bring as much as possible.

That's the plan for today.

There is only 240 steps from the place

where moose died to my shelter,

but I will have to carry it many, many times.

Heavy stuff.

So each time, I'm carrying as much as I can.

The legs could be almost my weight.

And it's very exhausting.

But if there are no predators or no spoiling...

♪

[sighs]

Okay.

For now, I'm putting meat on branches

and logs to be slightly elevated.

It's very simple,

but I know I have to do something quick

to preserve it all.

♪

Meat is close to my shelter, 25 meters away.

So it's within shooting range if some predators

would start feeding on my meat.

Later on, I will make a food cache...

[sighs]

But it's good for now.

♪

Keep on forgetting to eat.

I'm thinking I made a bunch of right decisions

to get to this point.

Let's eat some meat.

First decision is to change the location--

very important.

And I knew it has a good potential for hunting.

It's gonna be awesome.

This moose is kind of sign.

I mean, it's gonna be hard.

It's gonna be so many other challenges and so on.

That looks good to me.

But, for now, I'm planning to win.

Mmm.

♪

So juicy. More!

♪

[Nero] Let's bring her down.

♪

Come inside my little home.

♪

Hello!

♪

All right.

We got some food for dinner.

Bloody Hands Café

is gonna be Fatty Hands Café.

Ba dum tshh.

My tail.

So I got to get a little bit more fat off that.

All right.

Let's dice up that beaver tail.

♪

See what we can get out of her.

I'm slowly getting through my beaver.

I've got all the dried stuff, and I still have a lot of fat.

Cut around that bone first.

The beaver, it's just huge for the relief.

Kind of just frees up that mental space

as sort of like play and explore and create more.

Just trying to open this up. These little chunks up a bit.

Shelter's come along really well.

All right.

I still need to unlock fishing,

but this gives me time to figure that out.

I'm getting the hang of things a little bit here.

We's done.

A pot full of beaver tail and fat.

Time to put her on the fire.

Start to simmer her down,

and then starting on my shelter.

Food does make everything easier

and enjoyable and sustainable out here.

♪

Since I got that beaver,

focus has been on permanent shelter.

I feel like I was a bit behind with regards to getting

my permanent shelter up.

All right.

But I'm feeling pretty good now.

♪

It's my dream to have a fire in my shelter.

So I'm gonna put some crossmembers

across here and across there,

and that'll kind of seal it in.

Then I can start setting up my fire pit

and my heat shield in here.

Get to it.

♪

Right now with my shelter, the necessity

is just to get the bed, retaining wall,

and fireplace all sorted out.

The insulation can kind of come

as the weather gets colder.

It's just gonna be an ongoing project.

[tool thudding]

When it came to my choice for permanent shelter,

I've had in my mind coming here that I wanted

to do, like, a tepee wickiup.

It's not super labor-intensive.

You can put it up pretty quickly,

and also it comes with its own chimney as well.

I'm gonna dig a bit of a channel

to connect my pit to the outside,

to hopefully encourage the fire

to burn a bit more cleanly

and not to smoke on me.

♪

I've never stayed in a tepee or a wickiup.

I just wanted to just build something different,

something that brought me happiness and joy,

but it was also functional as well.

I've got that established.

We got these two tins right here.

I'm hoping we can cut it, fold it,

open her up,

and have them reflecting heat this way.

Would be nice.

And now I just want to check on dinner.

I definitely need to eat more

because I want to be able to be set

for whenever med check is.

Oh, there's so much fat in there.

♪

I put in beaver leg as well.

♪

It's taken a long time for me to come around

to loving this land.

It's been a growing relationship.

The more that I've been able to become in tune with it,

the more I've fallen in love with it.

I swear, food just tastes better

if you got to work for it.

You just appreciate it so much.

♪

So much sweeter.

♪

I'm really feeling like I'm meant to be here.

The land wants me to be here.

[wind howling]

[blowing]

Okay.

Yeah, it's going.

There's our heat reflectors.

♪ Fire in my house

♪

Might be scrappy, might be raw,

but I'm living.

Really living out here.

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

[saw grinding]

♪

[Andrew] I absolutely love it.

This whole lot will be covered,

and then it will be pretty much weatherproof.

The most important thing here is that the spruce branches

are put in upside down. So poke them in like that.

And the reason is, when they're like that,

they shed water, but if they're that way,

the water will drip inside. So I just kind of poke them up.

And when you're doing this, if you start at the top

and work your way down, you've got something

to kind of poke into.

You just kind of push them up like this.

It takes a bit of time to do it like this,

but for a long-term shelter, it's worth it.

♪

Oh, cold wind.

♪

The days have been getting shorter,

and the weather is very likely to turn.

And I think once we have snow on the ground,

it will make a lot of things more challenging.

So my focus now is getting the shelter built

up to a certain standard.

Bring it on.

Winter can come.

♪

I think I'm having a medical fairly soon.

I don't feel like I've lost a spectacular amount of weight.

I've definitely lost some.

Food is coming in not as fast as I would like,

but it is providing.

I'm very, very, very happy about it.

He'll definitely keep me going for two days, maybe three.

I think the easiness of catching hares

is why some people used to die of rabbit starvation.

♪

I think everything else is under control.

Shelter's under control.

Fire's under control.

Water, but hopefully this won't

result in tap-out by TP.

I thought about shelter design long before I came out,

and I wanted something that I could heat

with a fire, that would have a raised bed

and be efficient.

And the obvious solution to that is a lean-to.

But a lean-to shelter is really designed

to be short term because the whole thing is open-fronted.

But then I thought, if I combine

with a tepee in front of it, I create living space as well.

So I've got a sleeping area that

I can be 100% confident that

I'll stay dry during the night.

And then I also have a large area that I can stand up in.

I can make things. I can cook.

So I've basically created the perfect shelter

for the environment that I'm in.

♪

Oh, wow!

That's it.

First fire in the permanent shelter.

Definitely a moment to get excited about.

So the smoke is kind of swirling around inside,

but it's not coming to the bed.

I'm okay over here so far.

I think eventually, once the walls are fully insulated,

the smoke will automatically go up through the hole in the top.

Or at least that's the theory.

♪

Oh, [bleep].

♪

You know what?

♪

[bleep].

♪

Of course, they go for the easiest resource.

[bleep].

♪

[bleep]. Crazy jacks.

So far, all the food was never touched by any animal.

♪

Uh-uh-uh.

Maybe even poop there.

Uh-uh.

No, I'm not giving this to you.

Sorry, guys.

I'm pissed of these jacks picking my food.

Come on, get the [bleep] off!

But this is definitely a sign, you know,

that, oh, be careful.

I'm expecting that I will face predators soon.

So I will have to protect my meat much better.

Okay.

I'm planning storage place.

And this is kind of appropriate distance.

The meat is close already.

If it's wider, it's less cutting to build it.

So it will be just here between these three trees.

This meat goes there.

♪

Use these logs.

♪

Now I understand why some participants

mentioned that they would not shoot a moose.

There are many never-ending projects.

♪

I don't have any experience with building

food cache for big game.

So my plan is dig a hole in the ground,

place logs around it, and then put layers of meat,

cover them with spruce branches,

another layer of meat,

another layer of spruce branches, and so on.

So let's go deeper.

So it's protected from small predators.

And it would take some time for big predators to get it.

And hopefully I can hear it before they reach this part.

♪

Nice.

Time for branches.

♪

Spending so much time in forest,

it just gives you inner peace when you're out in nature

and away from the city life.

Growing up, it was definitely an escape for me.

And quite soon, I was reset,

and I could go back with new energy,

and that was very important for me.

It really comes back also to words

of book like "Into the Wild."

I think about survival of the fittest,

but what does it mean in our modern society now?

Yeah, we all can survive.

I mean, we have food. We have everything.

But the fittest, I would say, it's basically the happiest.

And you don't need to do something crazy for it.

You just have to think about it

and decide that you want to be joyful

and to live your life.

So these things that we as humans

are kind of maybe sometimes forgetting

too much in this crazy world.

♪

[sighs]

I'm so glad that moose is now under control.

I'm so glad.

I'm hungry, but

I can feel my body is really exhausted.

[groans]

[sighs]

Gosh, I'm tired.

Maybe just... [groans]

Just give me five minutes.

I think I deserve that.

♪

[bright acoustic music]

♪

[Pedrosa] Well, I collect

like the flag of my country--

green, yellow, and red.

And let's put all of these in the soup.

Yeah.

All there is.

Let's cook.

[device beeping]

[bleep]. There's so much to do though.

[device beeping]

Today I will have medical inspection,

but first, I have work to do, and I need to be prepared.

So much gear to deal with.

Okay.

Today, I will cut more logs to put here in the wall

and try to finish the shelter.

It's snowing, but I need to do it.

So let's go.

♪

Another day in the paradise that I choose.

And day after day, the work never ends.

[wood cracking]

There you go.

This one is cool.

Oh, my God.

[sighs]

Oh, [bleep] log.

Huge log.

I have a penthouse now.

People that know me probably are laughing

because of my stupidity.

I carry all the logs that I can.

♪

Another one.

♪

But it's a lot of energy.

Maybe too much.

♪

Now I need to take a rest.

So I will push harder until I break.

The taste of the soup.

And since I know me, I never break.

♪

[sipping]

♪

I confess, it is not good.

This probably is not tender.

♪

There's a boat...

It's for another one.

Then they come to me.

♪

[Ben] What's going on with the body?

- Nothing too special, I would say.

[Ben] Had any shortness of breath out here?

[Ziga] No.

[Ben] Full stomach and happy?

- Yeah. [Ben] Okay.

[motor whirring]

♪

[Ben] Feeling okay? - Yeah.

I mean, from what I'm doing with the workflow

and everything, pretty good. Yeah.

[Ben] One more.

Any issues with pain, infection?

No concerns over that?

- Nope, it's good.

[Ben] I'm done with you.

Any episodes of lightheadedness, dizziness?

[Andrew] Dizzy most mornings,

but it's definitely hunger-related.

♪

[Edrea] Deep breath in and out for me.

You're pooping a little bit? - No.

Last time I pooped was probably four or five days ago.

[Pedrosa] Hey, here they come.

Let's go.

♪

[Edrea] How are you doing?

Not eating much.

[Edrea] Are you feeling very fatigued?

[Pedrosa] No, only when I work a lot.

[Edrea] No chest pain?

[Pedrosa] Nothing.

[Edrea] Yeah, a lot of work.

Not a lot of food.

[Pedrosa] Too much work, really.

♪

[breathes deeply]

I good?

[Edrea] Just give us a few minutes here, okay?

♪

And I understand his resting heart rate

is low to start with,

but it looks like it's dropped a fair bit now.

So he's dropped about 10 points.

His blood pressure's down 20 points.

♪

[Pedrosa] I want to stay here more time.

♪

♪

[dramatic music]

Then you're into some big trouble.

♪

- Okay.

♪

It will be a disaster, so...

♪

[Jeffrey] So I was talking with the doctor,

and it was pretty alarming.

[Edrea] So your blood pressure is dropping,

and your heart rate's decreased to a point

where it's now critically low.

So ultimately we feel like you need to go into the hospital,

get some lab work,

and, for that reason, we feel it's necessary

to medically extract you.

- Today now? But I feel awesome.

[Edrea] I know.

It's a hard thing when you're not feeling that many symptoms,

but it's dropped to a point now where it's just, you know--

- I feel so energetic.

Look, I carry all these logs today.

I'm feeling energetic to build all my shelter.

Can we wait more a few days if I get really wrong?

[Edrea] The concern is that, even if you aren't feeling

symptoms, your heart's not able to pump in a way

that you're getting good blood flow to your tissues.

Your brain's not well perfused.

And so we don't want to wait till

it's a point that you're passing out

and getting yourself into danger.

Ultimately, over the next couple days,

even if you were able to eat a bunch,

we're actually a bit worried about that

'cause the state you're in right now,

if you eat too much too fast,

your body's not able to respond properly,

and it's actually quite dangerous to your health.

- Is your definitely--

[Jeffrey] Unfortunately, yes.

We have to medically extract you.

♪

- Okay.

If you want to.

I need to go.

I can do nothing?

[Jeffrey] It's not that we want to.

It's just, we're looking out for you.

- Okay.

If your final answer, or--

I'll go.

♪

The worst thing that could happen happened to me.

The doctor took me out.

But, in the end, I'm not regret about that

'cause their decision was correct.

I understand that if I was there alone,

probably I will push until I die.

And this is a big thing to think.

I think I gave my best with my skills.

And I give my best emotional,

showing the real Pedrosa.

For me, it was an awesome experience.

I enjoyed the view.

I enjoyed when the first snow fall.

I enjoyed the sun in my face.

And I'm humble enough to understand that failure

is part of the process.

It is forging me again.

It's another stage in my life.

And I hope all the love that I found here

can inspire people to push harder and realize that

you are a force of nature.

♪

I'm grateful to bring the flag of my country,

a symbol of hope, to the Portuguese people.

And I hope the people around the world

can see that I never quit.

I just go further and further without blaming,

because the present is a gift.

♪

All right, the wait is over.

I got ribs, baby.

Got beaver ribs.

Great, great meal.

Honestly, it tastes so close to beef, it's crazy.

♪

I've got enough meals to eat every day to day 30,

and after that, it's pretty slim.

I need to get some stuff in.

That's that.

I'm gonna put that back in the food case.

Save half and have that be my meal tomorrow.

You can come with me.

♪

It's been a while now since I've had new food come in.

♪

I'm starting to feel that pressure just a little bit.

Food is what's gonna make being out here

sustainable or not.

I do not want to starve out here.

My body type, my metabolism, I will not win.

So I gotta hustle.

♪

Let's go out and check the trap line.

♪

This place is gonna get harder.

You can just feel it.

♪

There are tracks through those three.

There's a lot of life around, but even that seems

to be quieting down a little bit.

♪

Nothing.

♪

♪

Oh, snap.

There's actually a little bit of ice

on top of Little Lake.

That's not good.

♪

There's this window to snaring a beaver from a land snare,

and it's gonna close with the coming of the ice.

The beavers eventually get to the point

where they'll just stay in their lodge

and stay under the ice.

♪

Damn.

I think I've only got maybe a day or two left

before this closes up.

So I think this is the only run that

they're using at the moment.

So I'm gonna focus all my efforts on this one.

I'm gonna move my beaver snares onto this run

and have maybe three or four snares on this run.

It's a last ditch effort.

Snare.

♪

I think this is gonna be tight.

I know one beaver is not gonna be enough to stay out here.

I need to get more beavers in.

It's just such a complete food source.

They're very, very clever creatures,

and I just need to think outside the box

and try and outsmart them.

It's a race against time and against nature

and against the ice to try and get it

before that window closes.

All right, let's set one more.

I don't want to put all my money on beaver,

but fishing is just not working out for me right now.

♪

While they're still coming up on the land,

I've still got a chance.

♪

Leave it there.

♪

Here we go.

♪

[tense ambient music]

♪

[Will] The land provides.

Oh, yeah.

The river has provided.

The land provides once again.

I slept so good. I didn't want to get up.

So comfortable and warm.

I see and hear something outside.

Let's go out and see what it is.

♪

Holy!

Wow.

Oh, apun.

Snow.

Look at all this apun.

Overnight, the land has changed

into a beautiful winter wonderland.

It is now a different environment.

As the snow begins to stick to the ground,

I think of my kids.

I think of them walking outside in the early morning

and seeing snow, seeing the joy on their faces

and then seeing how happy they are to play in the snow,

make snow angels.

And this gives me comfort,

knowing that it could be snowing at home

also right now.

Maybe that's how they're feeling in the same moment.

♪

All right, quit yapping and get going on the day.

♪

Despite fainting, I'm feeling pretty good at this point.

I have food, but other than knowing that I haven't pooped

in a long time, I feel like I have enough energy

to live out here.

While I'm sitting here waiting on this rabbit to boil,

I'm going to work on my sign. Finish that up.

Camp Ukalaitchaq is what I decided to name this place.

It's a beautiful place.

And that means Camp Rabbit.

I decided to name it that because ukalaitchaq

is an Iñupiaq word that my kids are really familiar with.

"The Ukalaitchaq Song," I sing it to them every night

in Inupiaq. Puts them to sleep.

And they're constantly asking me to sing it.

"Dad, sing 'The Ukalaitchaq Song.'"

"Dad, sing my song."

"Sing my song, Dad."

I've been harvesting ukalaitchaq,

eating ukalaitchaq here.

Makes a yummy, yummy broth.

And it just made sense, Camp Ukalaitchaq,

and so we'll finish this sign up.

♪

I think about it all the time.

Wonder what my family is doing right now?

Crazy thing is, like, I don't even know

what day of the week it is.

Like, I lost track of that a long time ago.

Like, it doesn't matter.

It's irrelevant out here.

I'll dig these...

deeper.

Every day is just work to survive.

Work the gill net to survive.

Work the snares to survive.

Work the water to survive.

Work your shelter to survive.

Just every day is work to survive.

Just finishing up the I.

♪

Four letters left.

But I'm in to win this thing, man.

Like, it's not gonna be easy.

It already hasn't been easy.

This has been the most difficult

three weeks of my life.

Working on the A now.

Second to last letter.

And it will be probably forever the most difficult

time of my life, until the day that

I no longer am on this Earth.

That's it.

Clean it up a little bit.

And Camp Ukalaitchaq sign is done.

But I know the memory,

the footage will live on forever.

As long as mankind lives on,

I will live on for my descendants

to see and hopefully bring encouragement

and cultural acceptance and spirit.

♪

All right, camp is officially done being built,

and it has a name.

Camp Ukalaitchaq. Camp of Rabbits.

I think the kids would love it.

♪

[tense ambient music]

♪

[Nero] It's like a hobbit house.

♪

[fire crackling]

Nice.

Get that fire going in the morning.

Yeah, as soon as you get that hot tent up and the fire going,

like, everything just seems possible.

It's like, you know you can go outside

and you can always just come back into the tent

and just warm up, dry out, refresh,

and head back out again.

So getting the fire going in the mornings for me,

it's gonna become ritual.

Okay.

Now we go brave the light outside.

Let me check my set lines.

Check the gill net as well.

I don't want to bet and put all my money

on getting a beaver.

That's gonna becoming more and more difficult

the colder it gets.

They're gonna be bunkering down.

So we need to start getting some fish in.

I need to figure that out.

♪

All right, let's check this line.

♪

Coming out here, I was really planning

on having fish as a huge strategy

or a huge food source for me.

♪

Nothing at all.

♪

Just haven't been able to make it work at all,

and I've tried so many different things.

There's something that I'm missing.

I'm not sure whether it's just a code I still need to crack.

Come on, fish. Where are you at?

I'm still just trying different means.

♪

But we're starting to feel the pinch,

just not bringing any in.

All right, let's go check gill net and set lines.

Just on the surface, it looks like it would be

a good spot for fishing.

You've got flow from Lake Learning into Big Riv.

Oh, it's freezing over more.

But I'm starting to learn that it's not.

Nothing in here.

Got ice forming on this side of my gill net.

Get this out of the water. Move it somewhere else.

I cannot afford to have it frozen into Little Creek.

It's not doing anything for me here, anyway.

♪

My float line here is almost frozen in place,

too, so it's gonna have to come out.

I have to keep at it. I have to keep trying.

But I'm not enjoying it at all.

Oh, of course, it's stuck on a [bleep] snag.

♪

See if I can pull it off over this way.

Come on.

Get off! [grunts]

♪

Yeah, it's broken.

[bleep] you, Little Creek!

Freeze over.

I don't care.

I'm [bleep] done with you, man.

♪

[sighs]

This sucks.

♪

I'm sure some people are just killing it with the fish.

Not this dude.

Not this spot.

I don't know whether it's just because the fishing's

annoying me or something like that, I don't know,

but today, I'm like, I'm actually missing people more,

and I'm missing comfort and other food more.

Not sure what to do.

Trying to figure it out one step at a time.

♪

I still need to check my trap line.

♪

We'll go and check out the beaver snares

and see if anything comes of it.

♪

I'm worried that I may have missed my window

to get another beaver.

The snare down there has got no activity.

It hasn't had any activity for a while, to be honest.

♪

I've got a beaver.

We have a beaver stuck in the snare.

Holy [bleep]!

♪

He's still alive, though.

♪

[sighs] Heart's pumping.

Heart is pumping like a mofo.

♪

[Nero sighs] Heart's pumping.

[dramatic music]

♪

Ah!

Yes!

Argh!

Life!

Food!

[growls]

Thank you.

Let's go! Let's go!

[grunting]

♪

There's more time, more life,

more experience out here.

I'm so grateful.

♪

Oh, my gosh.

♪

I'm hearing you, nature.

I'm feeling you.

♪

A lot of love for nature,

and a lot of love for myself for just not giving up.

Just keep trying.

I feel like I'm getting there.

I'll never forget today

and the gifts that this land is giving me.

Thank you.

♪

Beaver is back on the menu.

Maybe that's why the fishing's not working,

because this land just knows how much I love eating beaver.

Let's roll with that.

To get another full-size adult beaver

is just incredible, and right at the precipice

of the ice setting in,

I feel like that was my last chance,

and I've actually gotten one.

Having two beavers now

really does take the pressure off

with big game.

I have that fat there.

I don't need to have big game.

All right.

And got plenty of food to see me out

while I figure out fishing.

It still seems surreal that I'm doing this,

skinning another beaver.

I'm a very, very lucky man.

I have a tattoo on my right calf

that says fortune favors the bold.

I'm not sure whether pursuing the beavers is bold,

but fortune has favored me.

Yes, indeed.

I really feel now that I can bunker down,

and I can go deep into this competition.

All right.

♪

[Andrew] Do better each day.

What is it? Ernest Hemingway.

Fantastic Ernest Hemingway quote.

It's something about-- no, I'll remember it.

I'll get back to you later. It's a great one.

And I'm feeling generally very good.

The trap line is providing.

I'm--you know, had a few varying hares.

I don't want to kind of take my foot off the gas completely,

but I feel like I've got a little window now

to make the most of what I've already got

without having to put down any more extra snares.

I'll just check the ones I've got for now.

♪

Ah, yes.

Okay, this is the quote by Hemingway.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men.

True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

And that is a very, very good quote.

So I'm gonna keep that one in my head,

because even though there are ten of us all trying to get

to the end of this and win,

the competition isn't really with them, is it?

It's with ourselves.

So if we don't up our game individually,

then we haven't got a chance.

So I'm gonna work on my weaknesses out here.

So catch a fish.

That's how I'm gonna become superior to my former self.

I'm gonna catch a fish because...

[laughs] That's what I need to be doing.

I wonder how he would have done out here.

Wouldn't have lasted long without the booze,

though, would he?

I think he would have been really hankering for some rum.

♪

Bear with me.

This is gonna be more treacherous than usual today.

I feel a little bit relieved now that the medical is done.

That was a bit of a concern.

But I need to start building my weight up again.

So I need to focus on finding out a solution

to my inability to catch fish.

I want to catch the pike.

I want to catch the whitefish, the burbot,

all of these nice high-fat fish because

that will allow me to stay out here for the long term.

Wow.

♪

There's fish in here.

This little creek here is full of fish,

very small fish, but they

are currently very much trapped in here.

See this one? That'll make excellent bait.

Whoa. Okay.

If I was a pike, I would so go for that.

When I come back, I can grab a few fish.

Might be the easiest meal I get out here.

All right, let's send this and see

if he can catch bigger fish.

♪

Oh, not bad.

I am getting better at these casts.

I'm gonna set this one up as well.

Nature never hurries, but everything is accomplished.

That's another quote that I'm trying to live by.

That's better.

I've been quite philosophical.

It's bound to happen when you spend this much time alone.

You start to question all of existence.

But the one thing that stands out above everything else

is how absolutely absurd modern-day living is.

Still waiting.

And I think that's why I've settled into being here,

because I feel like I was certainly

addicted to technology and social media

and that dopamine hit you get.

But now that I'm here, I'm fully disconnected,

and I think that helps with my feelings of positivity

and feeling that I've still got what it takes

to win and to get to the end.

Oh, wow!

Oh, hello!

[laughs]

Someone was listening to my prayers.

I've got a burbot.

Oh, you are very welcome to stay for dinner.

You really are.

Okay, this is--this is a bit of a game changer.

Let's get this guy sorted.

A burbot is exactly what I wanted.

Burbot is poor man's lobster.

And this guy will absolutely

be coming home with me.

♪

[Jacks] Holy [bleep].

There is a lynx wandering around.

Wow.

Knowing that there's predators out there,

it's quite scary.

♪

[Will] This is fresh too.

Got chewed up a little bit.

Came up right here next to my shelter.

It might be back, and I'll be ready.

♪

- [bleep].

♪